NetBond relationship deepens the AT&T/Oracle relationship
AT&T now has 20 cloud providers participating in its NetBond for Cloud ecosystem, with the latest addition being Oracle's FastConnect cloud service.
NetBond allows AT&T customers to access cloud services from ecosystem partners with dedicated, secure connectivity and a promise...
Genband and Sonus are merging in a deal valued at roughly $745 million. The transaction is structured as a "merger of equals" and will give shareholders of each company approximately 50% of the combined enterprise. Sonus, a public company, saw its stock price rise...
AT&T to migrate thousands of existing Oracle databases to Oracle cloud
AT&T continues its shift toward software- and cloud-centric operations with a new agreement to move "thousands of its large-scale internal databases" to Oracle's cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service.
The move involves migrating many existing Oracle databases...
Oracle made two purchases this week: measurement and analytics firm Moat, and software start-up Wercker that focuses on cloud-based application and micro-services enablement through software containerization.
The Moat purchase will provide Oracle with a new platform for media and brand measurement and analytics that has an enterprise...
NFV continues to gain development and deployment momentum across the telecom space, with Oracle expecting big moves in 2017.
On this week’s “NFV/SDN Reality Check” we speak with Chris King, senior director of CSP products at Oracle, to discuss news...
Congress applied pressure to Sprint and SoftBank to avoid Huawei, while T-Mobile USA launched its LTE network … 4 years ago this week.
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines...
Industrial IoT 5G Insights discussed 5G with Håkan Andersson, head of 5G Product Strategy, Radio Business Unit, at Ericsson.
Bearing the promises of higher speeds and ultra-low latency, 5G is being promoted as a technological shift allowing new types of use cases. However, it has yet...
In our article, Cloud computing 101: Advantages and disadvantages, we defined cloud computing and discussed some of the benefits and challenges that come with transitioning from local servers to the cloud. We also took a look at the top 5 industrial IoT companies, excluding...
In our article, Cloud computing 101: Advantages and disadvantages, we defined cloud computing and discussed some of the benefits and challenges that come with transitioning from local servers to the cloud. We also took a look at the top 5 industrial IoT companies, excluding...
Global IoT platform revenues are expected to continue to grow fast and reach $3.3 billion by 2021. We discuss IoT platform trends with Berg Insight.
Berg Insight expects global IoT platform revenues to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.8 percent between 2015...
Advances brought about by the industrial IoT will go beyond manufacturing, says IBM, which proclaims the next economic revolution.
The 1700s and 1800s saw the industrial revolution taking place and the 1960s through to the 2000’s saw a technological revolution. Combine these two types...
Oracle said today that it will spend more than $9 billion to buy "the very first cloud company." NetSuite, led by a former Oracle marketing executive, says it has been working on cloud technologies for 18 years.
NetSuite reported $741 million in revenue last year....
17 companies set to partner with the U.S. government for R&D
The Obama administration announced new funding and private-sector partnerships for wireless research to build on the Federal Communication Commission's approval of high-band spectrum for the development of "5G" services.
The $400 million initiative will be...
Fujitsu plans to install the Oracle Cloud platform in its Japanese data centers
Fujitsu and Oracle Corporation Japan signed a strategic alliance to deliver cloud platform and services to customers in Japan and their subsidiaries around the world.
Under terms of the agreement, Oracle Cloud application...
5 things to know today...
1. Mitel's agreement to buy Polycom has been derailed by a private equity firm with a higher offer. Siris Capital said its $2 billion offer represents a 13.6% premium to Mitel's offer, which was announced in April. Mitel's offer was...
Verizon probably looks pretty good to its former customers now
1. Former Verizon Communications customers who are now served by Frontier Communications are struggling with unreliable service, according to multiple reports. Problems range from the inability to access online banking to a failure to reach...
Verizon strike update
1. Verizon has cancelled medical coverage for the thousands of employees who have been on strike for more than two weeks now. The company told the union last week that the employees' healthcare coverage would stop at the end of April if...
In the age of cloud computing and borderless workflow, enterprise IT is under going a seismic shift to accommodate the needs of the modern worker while enabling business-wide flexibility and responsiveness through technology integration.
In a new report from Oracle titled "The Era I Enterprise: Ready...
Oracle sees NFV moving further into the mainstream with the help of orchestration
Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
Network functions virtualization has...
5 things to know today ...
1. Apple reportedly earned $1 billion from Google in 2014 as a percentage of the advertising Google generated from searches on iPhones. The amount of the payment was part of the transcript from Oracle's patent suit against Google....
On this week's NFV/SDN Reality Check show we look at NFV orchestration development and top news stories of the past week
Orchestration platforms remain a significant barrier for the development and deployment of virtualized platforms as carriers rely on such platforms to manage network functions...
On this week's show we look at how open source is impacting NFV and SDN deployments and top stories from the past week
Open source continues to be a growing influence on the rollout of software deployments across the telecom space, with a greater focus...
Telecom operators have been busy in recent years throwing out diverse rate plans in order to entice increasingly fickle consumers and outmaneuver their rivals. These moves have put tremendous stress on LTE Diameter signaling traffic, which is expected to explode over the next five...
CCA panel suggests rural operators begin investigating moves to SDN and NFV
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Software-based network transformations are growing throughout the telecom space, with a number of larger operators already moving forward with plans to install platforms based on software-defined networking and network...
